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the Motu Proprio.

40 Days For Life – This is a highly effective program that has been used throughout the country to reduce abortions in those communities.

The new edition of Dappled Things is now online. I always enjoy each issue and this one includes features by Peter Kreeft and Fr. Neuhaus. You can also order print editions now.

Summer Reading Program – Aquinas and More, in conjunction with Loyola Press and Ignatius Press, is launching a summer reading program for Catholics. We would love for you to help spread the word and to participate in the discussion.

The 126th Catholic Carnival is here.

Ignatius Insight has a very worthwhile video of Fr. Fessio, S.J. discussing Pope Benedict XVI and the "Old Mass."

John Brown, S.J. has redesigned his CompanionofJesus.com site and it is really quite beautiful with tons of good Jesuit related links. The list of Ignatian and other Jesuit prayers along with graphics is really excellent.

Fr. Dwight Longenecker article on the Anglican use provision in Crisis Magazine is now online.

Also greatly worth reading is Redeeming The Black Avenger by Anthony Esolen in the same issue.

A reader sent me a link to the Loving Jesus Clock.

I guess this is a new twist on Jesus entering time.

A reader sent me a link to an excellent column by Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, S.T.D. at Catholic Exchange on priestly celibacy.

Fr. John Malloy, SDB chronicles the sad history of Catholic Charities and the Diocese of San Francisco in regards to homosexual acts and homosexual adoption.

From part of a homily from Fr Tim Finigan at The hermeneutic of continuity:

….But the other day, I was being interviewed for a programme to be broadcast on EWTN and the interviewer spoke of the parish and asked about its “success.” I think it was a light given by the Holy Spirit which prompted me immediately to say that I will only know whether the parish has been a success at the last judgement when our Lord will show me how many parishioners have been saved.

Our “success” or “failure” as a parish is not measured by how we feel or how much money we raise or how many activities we can arrange. The true success of all our endeavours in the Church will be measured by how many of us are saved and go to heaven. A consequence of this view of “success” in a parish is that all our activities should be directed towards this final end.

A nice expansion of what Aeschylus
said and directed towards a parish and definitely a thought to remember in how we measure success.

Mark Shea has the main article in this months issue of Crisis and his article is online.

Fr Dwight Longenecker also had an informative article in this months Crisis on the Anglican Use Right and the Pastoral Provision, though it isn’t online.

One of my favorite bloggers Julie at Happy Catholic now has her own podcast – Forgotten Classics.

A podcast featuring great authors and stories that should be better known. A little about the authors and their stories, with samples.

The podcast blog is here where you can subscribe.